Food Explorers to make peach dessert at Seymour Public Library program

SEYMOUR - Join Food Explorers at 3:30 p.m. July 12 at Seymour Public Library for a delicious summer cooking program! 

You’ll be making Peach Cobbler Cups: a layer of graham cracker crust, topped with brown sugar and cinnamon peaches with homemade whipped cream to top it all off. 

Recipe is nut free but will contain dairy. Ages 5 and up.

Registration is required and limited for this program. 

For more information, or to register, please call 203-888-3903.

Participation in our Summer Reading Program is not required to attend any of our free and fun programs.

This is shared from the Seymour Public Library Facebook page.

Massaro Community Farm to host potluck at Woodbridge Town Library

Beacon Falls Public Library Cookbook Club to focus on dessert dishes

BEACON FALLS - The Beacon Falls Public Library Cookbook Club will discuss dessert dishes at its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Jan. 24.
The Library is at 10 Maple Ave.

Participants are asked to bring a dish to share from that month’s cookbook along with copies of your recipe(s). 
Swing by the library to pick up a copy of the book " Williams Sonoma Dessert."
Must be at least 18 years of age or older to participate. 
By registering for the program, participants acknowledge they may choose to consume food that has not been prepared in a commercial kitchen.

*Shared from a Facebook event page.

Recuperation journey: Sunday s'mores

It's getting to be late August already (!) and we haven't made s'mores yet. 
We were going to use the grill Sunday but ended up cooking inside. 

Since we had the ingredients for those tasty treats we decided to microwave the marshmallows - I soon found that eight seconds on high was plenty; six seconds would probably suffice!

They were delicious and hit the spot.

And "gourmand" that I am I got an idea: Next time we should spread some peanut butter on the graham cracker first before adding a piece of chocolate and a marshmallow.

How does that sound? 

Recuperation journey: Making a pie

Believe it or not, yours truly made a chocolate pie. 
Those who know about my minimal skills in the kitchen are no doubt surprised. 

But the recipe I happened upon looked so easy I had to give it a whirl. 
It only has three ingredients: chocolate, whipped topping, and chocolate cookie-flavored crust. 

Step 1 ^ Open packages.  :)

Step 2 ^ Mix.

... and finished product.


Looks good to me, but I never said it was good for you!

Happy Fourth of July!

This was taken Saturday in Manchester, as were the photos below.

Although I didn't attend the Derby-Shelton festivities this year, I did hear them. The finale sounded amazing.

On Saturday we enjoyed the fireworks in Manchester in what has become a 20-year tradition celebrated with extended family.

Mmm ... daughter Allegra made a patriotic pie for us. Looks good.


Happy Independence Day to all! 

Have a safe holiday!